Warren Jeffs

Warren Steed Jeffs (born December 3, 1955) is an American religious leader and criminal. He is a convicted sex offender. He is the ex-president of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS Church). In 2011, he was convicted of two felony counts of child sexual assault. He is serving a life sentence plus twenty years.The FLDS Church was founded in the early-20th century when the founders deemed the renunciation of polygamy by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) to be apostate; there is no affiliation between the FLDS Church and the LDS Church: 

Sexual abuse crimes
In 2006, Jeffs was placed on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted List because he had arranged illegal marriages between his adult supporters and underage girls in Utah. In 2007, Arizona charged him with eight other counts in two separate cases, including incest and sexual conduct with minors.

In September 2007, Jeffs was convicted of two counts of rape as an accomplice. However this was overturned in 2010.

Jeffs was extradited to Texas, where he was found guilty for raping a 15-year-old he had married and for raping a 12-year-old he had married, for which he was sentenced to life in prison plus twenty years and fined $10,000.

Personal life
He was born in Sacramento, California. His father was Rulon Jeffs. Jeffs had as many as 78 wives.

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Category:1955 births
Category:Living people
Category:People from Sacramento, California
Category:People from Salt Lake City, Utah
Category:American Latter Day Saint leaders
Category:Criminals from California
Category:American rapists
Category:American people convicted of assault